From Twitter 09-20-2010

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Ia! Ia! Radishthlhu Fthagn!

It’s possible I’ve read too much H.P. Lovecraft over the last month or so, but I’m beginning to wonder if gardening isn’t really some terrifying eldritch cult bent on bringing That Which Should Not Be across the threshold of reality.

I was willing to write off borer larvae assaulting my pumpkin vines as an ordinary pest situation for which I was not appropriately prepared. I’m sure that kind of thing happens to everybody. Likewise, the strange little not-jalapeno bell peppers I grew this year.

Tonight, though, I am confronted with a mutant radish of such remarkable size — that bulb is larger than a golf ball — and I have to wonder what horrors lurk just beyond the boundary of my garden box, waiting to come through and devour humanity whole.

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It looks like Senate Republicans blocked both a key piece of immigration reform and a defense bill that included a repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. Way to go making it harder for us to protect the rights of and accurately document children born on US soil to immigrant families. Also, maintaining a policy that curtails military readiness while we’re still spending billions of dollars and losing lives in Iraq and Afghanistan? Classy.

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- In happy news, I’ve heard that Buddy the cat will be (medicinally) nuked thanks to bids and donations. Dear Internets: you’re wonderful.

- “The whole block is gone.” Southern developers want St. Louis brick, and thieves in the city are willing to dismantle whole buildings to sell it to them. I’m pretty sure I saw some of these buildings this past summer. (I also slept in a tent on somebody’s deck, rediscovered the true severity of my cat allergy, and went down a ten story slide, all of which required substantially less arson than stealing bricks.)

- Halloween comes early! Rachel Maddow: lesbian vampire.

- I’ve been mostly staying away from commenting at length on the whole Elizabeth Moon thing, mostly because others — I’m thinking in particular of Kate Orman (1 – 2 – 3) and Jim Hines — have been so thoughtful and written so much already. Yesterday I discovered that Apex Magazine will be doing an issue that highlights Arab/Muslim culture. While I’m always skeptical about responses to discrimination that look like someone has shouted “QUICKLY! TO THE INCLUSION-MOBILE!”, Apex prints good, thoughtful work. True inclusion is more than a special issue now and again, but right now I think there’s real value in providing the diverse group of people who are getting nailed because of a manufactured controversy a chance to do something grand.

- I can’t tell if this piece about suffering and carnivores is satire or not. Anybody want me to get started about how his whole premise is faulty if one assumes a polytheistic worldview? Or that his assumptions re: suffering are unsophisticated in terms of feasibility? No? Fine. I’ll just be over here playing Bananagrams…

- Tony Lee writes about plotting and process. Good stuff.

- A DIY project that is putting some of my shoes in extraordinary peril. And don’t give me that ‘glitter is unmanly’ crap. Glitter is awesome. So is stuff that glows in the dark, and stuff that explodes.

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Heads up: Banned Books Week starts the 25th. Expect words.

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